The slave/slaves could just...... well...... be free, do as they please, no more being bossed around or working, though, you would have to travel to get away from where you live so you will not get caught and sent back to be a slave, or worse
its sux
free-man, free-woman
The slave state with more free black people than slaves was Virginia. Though there was much debate about whether the state should be considered a slave state or free state due to the number of free slaves.
Yes
In a free society everyone was free and equal there were no slaves but a slave society everyone isn't created equal and others who are considered inferior are forced to serve others.
its sux
freedom
free hugs
There were no advantages. If you were riding in a slave ship then you were going to end up being sold as a slave.... that is, if you survived the voyage and the dreadful conditions aboard. You no longer had control of your own life. Nothing good which might happen could make that acceptable.
Trip was a free slave But he is being flogged and treated as a slave again
death - ...I would say being captured
His life was about being an abolitionist and trying to become a free slave and trying to free slaves.
Dred Scott
Dred Scott
According to the fugitive slave laws a slave was not automatically free if he/she escaped to a slave free state. If a slave was caught in a free state, the people were obligated to hold them for the slave chasers. Not many people obeyed this rule, though.
No a slave catcher could come and take them back but in Canada they were free
Free African Americans feared being sent to prison.